UN has a choice join the US and Britian in war or stay out of it...

Bush and Blair pretty much said as much about twenty minutes ago...

Didn't hear the news yet, I'm almost sure france is going to u se their veto.
Yeah, the war will come, believe me...

Beastatron sighs

Lousy no good wars...

It'll be more like Thursday or Friday I suspect.

I don't think it'll last long. A week or two?

Presently, under the sanctions and inspections regime, an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 children die each year. This is due to Saddam taking food importans and reselling them for hard currency to purchase weapons.

So while war is certainly not ideal, I suspect it will end up saving a lot of Iraqi lives.

im livin 15 miles form DC. so if this war breaks out into serious bomb threats............!!!

I am in Maryland, not so far from DC...I haven't gone into DC since 9-11

someone said that they 20k to 60k kids die because of saddam each year. so why is it that his people love him so much?

this is all horse crap, i dont give a crap about the middle-east. i saw the americans stay in the usa and we take care of our own problems. iraq cant hurt us from all the way there and we should focus on that goat bin laden.

it very well could end up saving a lot of Iraqi lives, many children for sure. I dunno, it just sees there should be another way than all out war, though none of the displaced trust the US because of being left out in the cold the last time around, so that isn't an option realy.

War is never good, killing, but if you weigh the issues out in the end, it sometimes turns out to be the only real solution to get back on the path with a positive direction...

maybe this is one of those times, though I do not see it yet... and win or loose will not make the difference for me, the resulting reality which the iraqi people are left with is key to that...

anyway..

guys chill. Just imagine ur one of those people who has no idea about current events. Then again my dad does work in DC.

and his office is less than a mile from the white house.........................then again they might declare a 'federal emergency' in which case he gets 2 stay home!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, counting votes huh

no, they do not love Saddam anymore than the people loved PolPot..

The thing is, isn't it up to them to kill the tyrant?
anyway...

the claim that Saddam is a global threat is rather hallow to me, North Korea is another story, they ARE a global threat and will sell anything they can to anyone who wants it. They have gulags where over 200,000 people die each year, some used as attack dog chew toys, others a test bunnies for bio and chem weapons research, others just worked to death and their cot filled when they croak... I dunno, seems to me we got the guns pointing in the wrong direction,at least at this moment.

"This is a key to catching Bin Laden"
Bollocks!
Beating the snot out of Iraq and the Iraqi people will just add another grievance to the long list in the extremist anti-US faction's propaganda machine, and a whole new generation of Muslim martyrs to generate more terrorist actions.
Bin Laden is still out and about, who says Hussein will be captured or even killed, certainly the past year has shown how not to deal with terrorist cells.
Sadam Hussein was a 'good 'ol boy' when he was fighting the Iranians, Ollie North should know and Bill Casey sure liked him!
"With Iraq gone .."
The object is not the destruction of the country and the ordinary people.
Then again, ordinary civilians were the targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki so that's not out of line with US policy.